CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1745, 5 June 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

TERRIBLE'EXPLOSION A HUNDRED STEAMERS SHATTERED Washington, June 2. ‘• A boat laden with Nitro-glyoerine exploded on the Ohio fiver, at Parkersburg, West Virginia. The crew, numbering twenty, were all killed, and two girls on shore injured. ' Over a hundred steamers were more or less shattered, and the houses for a mile round wrecked. A PLUCKY FISHERMAN . - '. Rome, June 2. Italian officers' 1 have publicly decorated a fisherm.m who took a prominent pprt in rescuing the Oroya’s passengers when she went ashore near Naples. . - REDUCTION OF MINERS’ WAGES SyUnev, Juno 3 The whole of the employees in the New Lambton colliery are notified that .their services will not be required after the 15th inst. The management is making a re-arrangement, involving further reduction in wages. The Stockton miners have received a fortnight's notice of a reduction of 2d in the hewing rate. A VALUABLE FIND . Pibth, June 3. An important discovery is reported from a locality forty miles north-west of Ooolgardie, where Menaies and party, prospectors, found' four reefs running parallel and intersected by a cross reef; This country has hitherto been untried. The cross. reef is very rich. ■ '■ 7- ' ./ UGANDA AN ADVERSE MOTION IN PARLIAMENT ' Lompoe, June 2. In the House of Commons Sir Charles Dilke moved to reduce the vote for administration of Uganda, and at the same time censured the action of the Government in despatching an expedition. A SOCIETY OF FIRE RAISERS EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES FIRING BUILDINGS TO OBTAIN IN•y ' . - SURANCES. New York, June 2. The leader of a secret society called the • Firebugs/ in New York, has been arrested, and has confessed that they had for many years been banded for the purpose of fifing buildings to obtain the insurance. The profit during the present year was already fer y thousand. The society included some of the adj usters on behalf of the Insurance Companies.